Seven Makar-ish Things
19 February 2022
A Makarship must give you time to write, it should suggest how to turn that into a performance or a publication, and, ideally, fund it. Such a set-up understands that the writer, their community, heritage, and artistic peers are all equals.
The Thursday Post: What We Read On Our Summer Holidays
23 July 2015
Woman Computer Scientist/Kobieta informatyk II by Anna, under a Creative Commons licenceThe Thursday Post: An Oakwoods Almanac
15 July 2015
It hasn’t felt like summer in Scotland this month! Or last month, really. We don’t want to hasten the season, but relished these (autumnal) extracts from Gerry Loose’s new book, An Oakwoods Almanac, and the practice of daily note-taking. Part...The Thursday Post: EIBF 2015 Highlights
11 June 2015
Around the world in 80 poets? Well, not quite, but almost. The Edinburgh International Book Festival was launched yesterday in the splendid Central Hall, light streaming through its windows. The Central Hall was built in 1901 by the Methodist...